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Could a guided shell run out of battery?

Guidance endurance is raised as another possible limit on the imagined long-range projectile.

Question

Could the guidance battery limit Vulcano's range?

Short answer

Possibly; the panel accepts battery endurance as a potential constraint and discusses sodium chemistry cautiously as a future improvement.

Notes

A projectile could run out of electrical power for guidance before reaching the proposed distance. The response accepts that possibility without identifying the actual battery as the limiting factor. Sodium chemistry is then discussed as a possible improvement if its mass-production problems can be solved. An earlier comparison with the transition from nickel-cadmium to lithium batteries is explicitly reconsidered and softened. The exchange offers a conditional technological possibility, without a verified performance gain.